Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-12-29
THE ALLOPATuiC CAR.
Extract from u lecture BY Dr. Flower
Of Is 'stOn.

This Is the subject or title az lecture
recently delivered IN Des Moincs by Dr.
r. G. Flower. OF Boston. In the course
IT his lecture the orator iock occasion I
denounce the Iowa medical law as unjust
and rs the means OF placing the medical
practice of the State In the hands Of an
incompetent class Of professionals.
They have been fr,m first to last the
sworn enemies OF the American press.
A voice: That's So Applause
An allorathic doctor said 10 me some tim,
ago. why. sir never advertise. What
de- you think Of lhat2" said: My dear
sir perhaps you never did anything 1T T."
advertise; this IL the reason you do not. I"
| want to say when speak Of allopathic
doctors that | have nothing personally
against them. They are my friends aud
| nm theirs. They like me rs like them
Laughter, l am on the most inlimat,
terms with many Of them. The leading
allopathic physicians Of this country, be
II said to their praise, never ask for n
medical law. A prominent allOpaihi,
physician Of Boston appeared before the
Legislature expecting him to say YES
gentleman. we want medical law he
WAS asked the question. Don't you want
medical law?' That great man Of the
Boston University. almost the rival In
brains Of Humboldt, paused moment
aud looked over the doctors that were
asking for II aud saw rs sickly aud par.
alytic set, intellectually, Ms he ever had
set eyes upon. mo gentleman. yoi do
not need any medical law. you need more
brains" Laughter and applause Now.
let the ordinary allopnlhic doctor do u
little something. He don't believe In
advertising. oh no. When he starts to
practice what does no do2 He puts
sign up on the door, 80 and So. NJ. ID.
lie hns some cards with NJ. d.. that he
slips out wherever he can get anybody to
take them. II he is introduced he wants
to be inlr duccd III Dr. SO and So, and he
will never forgive you II you omit IT, II
he goes to another county to attend D
little society, or II he mas case he thinks
he has half way brought out OF trouble,
what doei he dor He has tea party
and calls r., the physicians for society
meeting. Calls In u pnr reporter and
gives him IA |, n h Of cheese and Ike and
tells him 10 make minute u the meet
ing This done, he will take II around
aud show 1t lo all Ill friends. Laughter.
They do believe In advertising, but they
do u believe In paying for Il. Instead
OF going t"a newspaper and ssying t. the
editor | have performed cuIv. u case
that ha' been given up for years. | regard
1t as remarkable. am anxious that the
facts be known TO the public | wish you
to go and investigate my statement
wish you to verify everything.
so you are satisfied yourself that what
say IL true. then | want you to publish
the facts to the world aud will pay you
like prince. This IL manly this Is proper:
this Is enterprise. But TO beat your way
through the press opposing advertisements
on the one hand. but on the other getting
all the cheap advertisement they can for
nothing Is cowarClly. the work OF beat.
and that is what these doctors do.
Laughter and applause, Suppose this
bill had passed the Massachusetts Legisla-
turc, and suppose the same kind OF bill
should pass In every State. 1t would take
out Of the Golfers Of the papers Of the
State of Iowa, and out Of the Job printing
office. In the STATE Of Iowa, over four
mili'o seven hundred thousand dollars
every year, all to please the paralytic
spleens of these NJ. DIS You stop the
manufacture OF proprietary medicine and
you will close up three eleycnlhs Of all
the drug stores of the United States and
two-ihirteenths Of the job printing pres es,
all for the purpose OF pleasing this small
class of incompetent professionals. The
most ridiculous feature of this bill was
this. that they asked that on the outside
of the bottle Of every proprietary medi-
cine the manufacturer be compelled to
write his formulate an the bottle In plain
English. They want to know what Is In
the medicine. They know that there Is
more virtue in these medicines than they
possess ard tney want to get at 1t. II Is
the class OF people who never write any
thing in plain English themselves who
ask that their rivals be compelled to. You
go to some allopathic doctor tonight and
he will give you prescription which the
ordinary man cannot read. He will write
il in LatII or continental Latin. or in
Russian Polish Latin. or in dog Latin. or
something Else. Laughter Yet these
doctors ask that their rivals be compelled
10 do what II has never been possible for
them to do. That is cnwardly. That j.
asking for an advantage which man OF
chiyalry would never ask.